New Political Science welcomes your paper, panel and short course applications for 2009!
New Political Science, Section 42, APSA Call for Proposals 2009
Program Chair: Jocelyn M. Boryczka, Fairfield University, jboryczka@mail.fairfield.edu
“Politics in Motion,” the 2009 APSA conference theme, is one well-suited to the New Political Science Section, founded in a commitment to progressive political change. Motion suggests a progression or movement forward that entails conceptions of change laden with assumptions about what is considered “new” and progressive in politics and political science. The New Political Science section is calling for individual papers and panel proposals that interrogate these assumptions about progress, change, and the “new” given the real and perceived complexities of the contemporary political context. Papers and panels that explore this topic by identifying systems of domination and the ways in which people collectively struggle within and against them on the global, national, and grassroots levels are particularly welcome.
The section encourages papers and panel proposals that consider various questions broadly related to what political change means in a seemingly complex contemporary world. How does the perception of complexity contribute to a politics of fatigue that can stagnate political movement? How are complex identities negotiated in efforts for social change? What do those negotiations mean for transforming democracy and capitalism? What “new” and different ways are diverse peoples across the globe mobilizing amidst the complicating forces of globalization and democratization? How do forces of tradition motivate and stagnate struggles for progressive political change committed to nonviolence and social justice?
To consider such questions and many others, the section is particularly interested in perspectives that challenge disciplinary and academic boundaries. The section welcomes papers and panel proposals drawing from a broad range of theoretical and empirical approaches, using alternative methodologies, and bringing together junior and senior scholars, activists, and practitioners.